- Museum number
- 1992,0406.106
- Description
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Foxe, John. The Booke of Martyrs. Revised, with Notes and an Appendix, by the Rev. William Bramley-Hope, M. A. Incumbent of Gerrard’s Cross, Bucks. With illustrations by G. H. Thomas [i.e. George Housman Thomas], John Gilbert, G. Du Maurier [i.e. George Du Maurier], J. D. Watson [i.e. John Dawson Watson], A. B. Houghton [i.e. Arthur Boyd Houghton], W. Small [i.e. William Small], A. Pasquier [i.e. James Abbot Pasquier], R. Barnes [i.e. Robert Barnes], M. E. Edwards [i.e. Mary Ellen Edwards], T. Morten [i.e. Thomas Morten], etc. Engraved by W. L Thomas [i.e. William Luson Thomas]. [Monogram device of Cassell, Petter and Galpin.] London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E. C.; and 596 Broadway, New York, [1866]. [London:] Cassell, Petter and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Year. xiv, 726p. Additional illustrators are listed as: Henry Courtney Selous, Paolo Priolo, John Gordon Thomson, F. J. Skill, Richard C. Huttula, Francis Wilfred Lawson, F. J. Slinger, Richard Principal Leitch, J. Henley, J. Lee, Samuel Luke Fildes, Charles Green, Matthew Somerville Morgan. The frontispiece plate shows Ridley and Latimer being burnt at two stakes. It is signed: “T Morten” [i.e Thomas Morten] and “W. Thomas Sc”[i.e William Luson Thomas]. It is captioned (Latimer speaking to Ridley): “/ ‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust/ shall never be put out./’” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso and on a separate paper slip. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Text sewn on three sawn-in cords. Red ink speckled edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Brown coarse pebble-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically in blind, with a single fillet on the borders, and a stylised ‘branch and flower’ pattern forming the central frame. On the upper cover, the central vignette is blocked in gold. It shows the standing figure of Nicholas Ridley as a martyr, faggots piled up in front of him, being burned at the stake. It is a detail reproduction of the frontispiece, which shows Ridley and one other figure [probably Hugh Latimer] being burnt together. The vignette is signed “De Lacy” in relief at the left hand base of the vignette. The spine is blocked in gold and in blind. From the head downwards, the decoration is: stylised leaf and stem decoration, blocked in blind; The title words: “/ Foxe’s/ Book/ of/ Martyrs/ Illustrated/” are blocked in gold within a panel formed by a single gold fillet; Small curling stem decoration, blocked in gold, is interspersed between two diamonds formed by fillets blocked in blind; more stem and leaf decoration, blocked in blind and in relief, which emanates from a thin tree trunk; near the tail, the words:”/ London/ Cassell Petter & Galpin/” are blocked in gold within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Thickness: 46 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Book of Martyrs.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.106
